Gretha

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gretha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M
  • NONorway1 in 13K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

2,510 people

Sources
83 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gretha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gretha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands2,5101 in 6.9K2.5KGretha35
TZ Tanzania≈530 est.≈1 in 111K—Gretha6
NO Norway4141 in 13K1.3KGretha10
ZA South Africa≈400 est.≈1 in 142K—Gretha21
US United States1371 in 2.4M136Gretha83
SE Sweden1271 in 80K127—1
DK Denmark1041 in 56K104——

2,510 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gretha is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Brazil, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Grêtha

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Netherlands, Canada

    Also written Grétha

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gretha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Albanian, indefinite nominative/accusative plural of greth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Gretha Pieck, b. 1898Gretha van Witteveen, b. 1906Gretha Jünger, b. 1906Gretha Cohen, b. 1930Gretha Kant, b. 1945Gretha Boston, b. 1959Gretha Tromp, b. 1964Gretha Cavazzoni, b. 1974Gretha Smit, b. 1976Gretha Martini, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Gretha a male or female name?
Gretha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Gretha have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Gretha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gretha.
Where is Gretha most common?
Gretha is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gretha?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,510 people named Gretha, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.

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The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gretha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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